At least 45 people, including 12 children, died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials said.
A legislative investigation released Monday found "overwhelming evidence" that former New York governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed women and that he ordered state workers to help produce his book on pandemic leadership during work hours.
Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds in office, died on Tuesday. He was 90.
Attorneys on Monday offered their final words to the jury in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020, with the prosecution saying that three white men chased him solely "because he was a Black man running down the street," while defence lawyers repeatedly blamed Arbery for his own death.
Ethiopia's prime minister said he will lead his country's army "from the battlefront" beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step by the Nobel Peace Prize-winner in a devastating yearlong war.
An ex-aide to Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday took the stand in the former Israeli prime minister's corruption trial in Jerusalem, describing his boss as a "control freak" who was obsessed with the way he and his family were portrayed in the media.
The Public Health Agency of Canada said it hopes to keep the number of wasted doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada under five per cent.
Spanish authorities in La Palma ordered residents of three coastal towns to stay indoors. A new gush of lava from a volcano threatened toxic gases as the lava tumbled into the sea. (Involcan/Reuters)
South Korean superstars BTS were crowned artist of the year at the American Music Awards on Sunday, brushing aside challenges from Taylor Swift, Drake and The Weeknd as they took home a total of three awards.
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he's nominating Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, endorsing Powell's stewardship of the economy through a brutal pandemic recession in which the Fed's ultra-low rate policies helped bolster confidence and revitalize the job market.
When the Trump administration attacked Canada with tariffs on aluminum and steel, Canada retaliated. Fighting Joe Biden's pro-labour green car tax break may require more finesse.
